building a granular step-sequencer with steps mapped to keys

[hypnosapien]

it's not exactly 'performance friendly' - but if you right click on the waveform and choose 'manage sample' then hot-swap for a different sample of the same length all the samples will get swapped out like you want.

That's what I was looking for. Like you said, not very performance friendly, but it still takes some time out of setting up sliced loops. Thanks!

[pucklermuskau]

ive had great success in using keyboard maestro to cut up clips into 1/16 notes and assigning follow actions to them, just for this sort of purpose. Its a keyboard macro scripting program for osx, and importantly it can simulate mouse clicks, which is key for automating the follow action setup. I dont have the script in front of me, but it goes like this:

in arrangement:
drop a warped clip into a track. Set the loop bars for the arrangement window to their minimum size, then select and highlight the loop brace.
Invoke the macro script, which basically slices (command-e) the brace and moves the brace forward (right arrow), 16 times. This produces a set of 16 clips that can then be pasted back into the session view.
I then highlight these tracks, and run an additonal script that mouse-clicks on the clip follow actions, assigns it to 1/16, and follow to next, with a quantize of 1/16. Bam, you've got a jugglable clip set that can be saved and recalled.

If someone would like a copy of my macro scripts, just pm me. Enjoy!